Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Dare to be yourself.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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